Friday, August 10, 2012

Bat-Wing'd Dusk

Mack Hall
mhall46184@aol.com


Bat-Wing’d Dusk

The heavy summer dusk is a buffet
Of insects for a delicate bat’s good taste:
A careless moth, mosquitoes bordelaise,
Moths, crickets, flies, gnats - nothing goes to waste!

But even a hungry bat flies low and slow,
Weary-winging his eventide flight,
Tired, lazing through his practiced touch-and-go,
This humid, heat-sodden, late-summer, night.

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